Lakers News: Metta World Peace Praises Rookie Brandon Ingram

For the second consecutive season the Los Angeles Lakers had the No. 2 overall pick in the draft, and after selecting point guard D’Angelo Russell out of Ohio State in 2015 this year they decided to go with Duke forward Brandon Ingram.

Ingram averaged 17.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game in his lone season at Duke. Overall he shot 44.2 percent from the field while shooting 41 percent from three-point range.

While he has yet to play an NBA game, Ingram has already impressed a lot of people in the organization with both his play in the Summer League and in practice.

One guy in particular that he has impressed is Metta World Peace, who is heading into his 17th NBA season. At Lakers Media Day on Monday World Peace said that Ingram has more tools and is more skilled than he was at the same age:

At his age, he’s way more skilled. When I was his age I didn’t have all of the tools he has -MWP on @B_Ingram13 (via @SpectrumSN)